<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; border-collapse: collapse; "><div>(I am using daily digests since this is a high-volume list)</div><div><br></div><div>Thanks for your responses.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Yes the idea is to install a SATA to CF converter as a cheap SSD, possibly</div><div>i'll opt for SSD, but this is just an interesting route I wanted to take. Boot</div><div>speed I dont care about a lot, and I thought it would be interesting to turn</div>
<div>the MacBook Air into a small embedded device. Its minimal enough for my needs</div><div>as it is.</div><div><br></div><div>On the issue of how big the disk should be. I use some eye-candy (svg-icons),</div><div>and stick to gcc/Python and vi. No Java, no IDEs. Occasionally I use inkscape and </div>
<div>Gimp.</div><div><br></div><div>Am I correct in assuming that 4GB would be proper for the install of FC10 + dev tools, </div><div>and another 4GB as playing space would be enough?</div><div><br></div><div>As for the memory mounted swap. Until now, I assumed that the kernel doesnt</div>
<div>function properly without some swap mounted somewhere. So, on a 2GB machine</div><div>I thought I could allocate 256MB just to keep the kernel satisfied. Did this change in</div><div>recent years? If not, it should serve as a development machine, I will sacrifice memory </div>
<div>for stability here.</div><div><br></div><div>Which begs another question: if I install a life CD to HD, is that an installation</div><div>of a Life CD (with some of memory mapped disks), or an installation of FC proper</div>
<div>with a normal layout. Otherwise I'll try the route of going with a CF (cheap SSD)</div><div>and just run an install of Fedora Life on it. Is this an option?</div><div><br></div><div>Thanks again.</div><div><br></div>
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